Show LYMAN ABBOTT'S a Able Defense of the Principle of Home Rule as Set j Forth in The Doctor Lyman editor of The of which ex-President Roosevelt is associate in discussing the and the in that issue of November among other says right to govern one's self does not involve the right to govern some one Suffrage is not a natural No man ought to be given the right to share in governing others until he has developed the ability to govern For this reason I believe in qualified The qualifications hit upon hy certain of our southern states seem to me excellent if they are equally and justly applied qualifications that before a man can that he shall have have enough to thrift enough to have saved a little and patriotism enough to have paid his Similar qualifications might well be applied in all the territories belonging to and under the sovereignty of the United the right to govern one's self does involve the right of the locality to govern itself in all those matters 4 which concern only the the right of the state to govern itself in all those matters which concern only the and the right of the nation to govern itself in all those matters which concern the this reason I believe in local Local option is not a political device to get rid of the temperance As it is the right of every man to determine for himself what he will eat and what he will so it is the right of every community to determine whether it will have For the same reason I am opposed to state and national This is not merely because experience has demonstrated that a prohibitory law cannot be enforced in a state unless previous education has created a state-wide conviction in favor of it is because one of the state has no right to its ethical ideals on another part of the state on account of a question on which ideals so widely and when the benefits or evils of one policy or the other are mainly confined to the the same reason I believe in home rule for our The population of New York City is almost equal to that of all the colonies at the time of the The same fundamental principle the right of self-government which gave the colonies the fight to govern themselves in matters which concerned only gives the city the right to govern itself in all those matters which concern only the The city is more competent to manage its own affairs than a legislature relatively ignorant of its conditions and but slightly interested in its this reason also I believe in states' The phrase is odious in certain quarters because of historical but what the words really I believe I believe that the representatives of the people of Illinois can manage the affairs of the state of Illinois better than they be managed by the representatives of the nation at The representatives of Illinois understand Illinois better and are more interested in its But if this were not still I would believe in the right of the people Illinois to manage the affairs of It Is their right because those affairs are their city and state self-government is simply the political application of the your own |